Fig. 1267.— Spruce Hedge. 



SPRUCE HEDGE AT LINDSAY. 



sion regarding the hedge, from those 

 who see it, viz.: that it is the finest they 

 ever saw. 



W. M. RoBSON, Lindsay. 



Sir, — I am sending you a photograph 

 of my Norway Spruce hedge, together 

 with gooseberry pickers, man, myself 

 and berries. There is but one expres- 



MANURING ORCHARDS. 



" A system of manuring for cultivated 

 orchards, based upon the limited data 

 at our disposal, may be outlined as fol- 

 lows : To provide vegetable matter and 

 to improve the physical quality of poor 

 soils, apply yard manure once in four 

 years, in fall or winter, at the rate of 

 five to ten tons per acre. To aid in the 

 decomposition of vegetable matter and 

 to insure a sufificiency of lime as plant- 

 food, apply lime at the rate of twenty- 

 five bushels per acre once in five years. 

 To provide, in addition, an abundance 

 of all forms of available plant-food at 

 the time of need for the development of 

 the tree and fruit, apply annually chem- 



cal fertilizers in the following propor- 

 tions : Nitrate of soda, loo pounds ; 

 rock superphosphate, loo pounds; 

 ground bone, 200 pounds ; muriate of 

 potash, 200 pounds. The amounts to 

 be applied depend on the character of 

 the soils, the kind of fruit, and the age 

 and vigor of the trees ; these given per- 

 haps mark the minimum. By the in- 

 troduction of crimson clover, we have a 

 plant admirably adapted to cheaply sup- 

 ply nitrogenous vegetable matter for 

 orchards, and its growth is to be recom- 

 mended wherever the plant can be success- 

 fully grown, instead of the use of barnyard 

 manure." — L. H. Bailey, Ithaca. 



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